Embassies

Whilst political geographers have driven critical analysis of national level policies, debates have largely in the Government of India’s (GoI) diaspora policies that have and outreach tools designed to colonise diasporic communities1 as a domain for the extra-territorial extension of state power (Collyer and King, 2014). In this paper, I explore specific sites of countries so as to better understand specific policies ’ successes and of overseas pop-always be diaspora o nn, 2010; 2011). If, as Mullings (2011: 424) agues, a key aim of sc investigation should be to analyze how diaspora policy form ‘‘seek out, and recognize as legitimate... competing viewpoints and diverse identities’’, then a focus on sites of exchange become a critical area for analysis. Specifically, this paper focuses on the outreach practices of the Consulate General of India (CGI) in Durban, South Africa. The CGI Durban is one of three (including Johannesburg and Cape Town) emerging in post-apartheid South Africa as important actors no